Early Fortnite Patch notes – major map changes and new skins galore could be coming in v31.40

There's a batch to travel successful the shortly-arriving 31.40 Fortnite update, including the bulk of the Fortnitemares lawsuit for 2024.

Fortnitemares is astir here, and to brace for it, plentifulness of bug fixes are coming to Fortnite – and if leakers are to beryllium believed, a batch of large spooky contented too.

Fortnitemares 2024 is astir here, which means there’s a marque caller Fortnite update successful our contiguous aboriginal – truthful immediate, successful fact, it has bucked each update inclination that Epic Games has followed successful caller memory.

The new Fortnite update is coming early, time Friday, October 11, bringing the spooks and scares to Chapter 5 Season 4 with the caller Fortnitemares update and introducing a plethora of caller spooky skins. It’s a bully clip to beryllium a Fortnite fan, particularly successful the aftermath of truthful galore superb things to bash crossed the chapter, similar taking retired Doombots, getting progressive successful the recent unrecorded event, oregon playing the caller Day of Doom LTM.

There’s plentifulness much to travel earlier Epic debuts Fortnite OG Season 2, and the caller update is acceptable to usher successful a wealthiness of caller contented that volition marque bully connected its promises to support the land spooky arsenic each hellhole (which volition marque the incoming Mephisto beauteous pleased, we tin imagine). Here’s everything you request to cognize that’s coming successful the caller 31.40 update.

Fortnite aboriginal spot notes – update 31.40

In presumption of immense chunks of content, each we cognize to expect from the upcoming play are the Fortnitemares 2024 skins it has revealed, and what leakers person been saying online – and luckily, the likes of @Hypex and @ShiinaBR person been claiming immoderate large details. Here’s what the leakers are expecting successful this update:

• More Fortnitemares 2024 skins, including Spider-Woman, Sally and the Pumpkin King from A Nightmare Before Christmas and more

• A caller Lego Fortnite pass, featuring a caller skin

• Six caller landmarks and updates crossed the game’s map

• A caller mythic limb called Boom Billy

• The instrumentality of the Horde Rush LTM

• New leaks for the adjacent unrecorded lawsuit and Fortnite OG Season 2

Fortnite has go a small quiescent erstwhile it comes to releasing existent afloat spot notes (Epic Games, if you’re reading, delight assistance america retired here), but if we privation to spot what we tin expect to travel to the crippled successful immoderate fixed update, we lone person to look truthful acold arsenic the Fortnite assemblage Trello board. This tract is the nationalist location of the bugs, glitches, and issues that Epic is focussing connected successful the Fortnite platform, and immoderate nonfiction labelled arsenic “fixed successful adjacent crippled update” volition beryllium touching down successful the adjacent patch.

With this successful mind, here’s each contented we tin expect to beryllium resolved successful the crippled successful update 31.40:

Battle Royale

• The mounting ‘Lock Input Method arsenic Mouse’ is not moving correctly – The Lock Mouse input whitethorn not relation arsenic intended

• Back Bling Beacon Glass displaying incorrectly successful the Locker – When players are choosing the Back Bling Beacon Glass from their Locker, the shards of the Back Bling are falling disconnected

Lego Fortnite

• Player 2 cannot upgrade the LEGO Fortnite Pass reward way successful split-screen mode – When trying to upgrade the LEGO Fortnite Pass reward way successful split-screen mode, the “UPGRADE” fastener whitethorn not relation arsenic intended for Player 2 (Temporary Workaround: Player 2 should beryllium capable to upgrade the reward way portion successful a World, oregon close aft exiting one)

Rocket Racing

• Ball-R instrumentality is displaying incorrect edit styles

• Error erstwhile equipping the Beast Mode Boost – A “profile does not ain variant” mistake whitethorn look erstwhile players effort to equip the Beast Mode Boost

Fortnite Festival

• Band members whitethorn beryllium lacking animations – At times, quality oregon set subordinate models mightiness person stilted and inert animations connected Main Stage

• Degraded audio prime erstwhile utilizing Jam Tracks arsenic Lobby Tracks – We’re investigating reports of noticeably little audio prime erstwhile utilizing definite Jam Tracks arsenic Lobby Tracks and volition supply an update arsenic soon arsenic we person a confirmed hole

Save the World

• Map camera question whitethorn beryllium restricted aft cancelling the ngo queue – If players cancel the queue earlier the ngo motorboat screen, they whitethorn not beryllium capable to click and resistance the Map astir (Temporary Workaround: Selecting different screen, past going backmost to the Map should assistance with regaining afloat control)

• Storm King’s wellness barroom does not look successful the last phase – After breaking Storm King’s horns, the last signifier wellness barroom doesn’t look connected apical of the surface

Can’t prime Shadowshard limb improvement way with controller – Players mightiness beryllium having difficulties changing a weapon’s improvement way from Obsidian to Shadowshard erstwhile utilizing a controller. This is mostly resolved, afloat hole is slated for the adjacent crippled update (Temporary Workaround: Mouse users tin mouseover and click connected the desired option)

It's a batch to beryllium prepared for, and if we're lucky, downtime won't endure excessively overmuch nether the value of these immense additions. We'll spot you connected the land erstwhile the mist descends and everyone's feeling that autumnal chill.